Underperformance Letter Quotes & Sayings

That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin. — C.S. Lewis

In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook. — Rolf Potts

Love and romance are things worth waiting for. — Cath Crowley

Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ... — Thomas Love Peacock

Commit yourself to something you have a passion for. — Bill Walsh

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises. — Eugenie Scott

If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book. — J.K. Rowling

Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy. — Erykah Badu

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star. — Wernher Von Braun

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life. — Derek Jacobi

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes. — Robert Rodriguez

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. — Jerry Leiber

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus. — Richard Branson

I like my life dull.'
'If you like your life dull, then that can only mean that you do not understand the nature of excitement. — Julia Quinn